The Serpent Lords

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anything else that I might put in the story that is not my own.

A.N. Please give this story a shot! Oh and in this story Neji and Hinata are NOT related. They just have the same colored eyes. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

The sun was beating down hard on Sakura and her friends: Ino Tenten and Hinata.

A message had been given to their village a few days back.

The message was from the Serpent Lords.

The Serpent Lords were men that were have human from the waist up, but from the waist down, they had a snake's tail.

What they had said in their message was that they were to give them four human girls, or else they would attack the village and kill everyone and everything that lives there.

And for some reason -though they didn't know why- Sakura and her friends were the ones chosen.

So that's were they are now, left in an iron bar cage, and practically frying in the summer heat.

Sakura looked at her friends.

Tenten was looking up at the sky, seeing if there were any clouds to block the suns scorching rays.

Hinata was leaning up against the edge of the cage fanning herself with her hand.

Ino was on the ground tanning.

Wait a minuet.

Sakura looked back at Ino.

She was indeed laying on her back, her face turned up at the sun and eyes closed.

"Ino, what are you doing?" Sakura questioned.

Ino opened her turquoise colored eyes. "Well, if I'm going to die, I want to enjoy the rest of my life before it's over," she stated as if she were just talking about tea time.

Hinata looked at TenTen. "Do you think we're really going to die?"

TenTen turned her head to look at her. "I'm not sure of that, Hinata." She looked back at the sky. "Hey guys," she exclaimed. "There's a cloud coming."

Everyone turned their heads upward.

Sure enough, a cloud was heading their way. They could see its shadow coming closer.

"Oh, thank god," Sakura said happily. "Some shade at last!"

But as it came closer, the wind chose that time to shift its way.

When it did reach them, the shadow was just an inch away from the cage. Then it was gone.

"Just our luck," TenTen muttered as the rest of them groaned.

They sat there for a long time.

Sakura had lost count on the hours.

Time seemed endless in that little prison.

To them, the seconds seemed like minutes and the minutes seemed like hours.

The heat was starting to make them tiered.

The sun started to set.

Then, one by one, they started to fall into a dreamless sleep.

Meanwhile…

Sasuke and his friends slithered amongst the rocks and other stuff that grew on the ground as they made their way toward the cage that held their prisoners.

"Come on," he called back to his companions.

A blond haired boy slithered up to Sasuke. "Give… Us… A… Brake… Sasuke," he panted. "We're not… as fast as… you."

Then, other boy with long brown hair made his way up to Sasuke. "We know that you are exited," he said. "But Naruto needs the rest. Look at him. He looks like he's about to keel over and die any minute now."

Sasuke looked over at Naruto. He did look like tired.

"Fine," he grunted.

And the others collapsed to the ground.

Sasuke layed down and stretched his tail out on a long rock.

He looked up at the sky.

It was now filled with pinks oranges and deep purples.

It was almost night fall.

Sasuke picked himself up and looked in the direction that they were heading. They would get there soon.

After ten minutes, Sasuke got up from his rock and turned to the others. "Alright, let get going," he said.

Naruto groaned. "Do we have to?"

"Yes," Sasuke snapped.

Then they got up again and continued on their way.

The moon was just begging to rise when they finally got there.

'We would have gotten here sooner, if we didn't stop for that rest,' Sasuke thought angrily. 'But no. Naruto had to get tired.'

"Look," Sasuke turn to the boy with his hair in a spiky ponytail, who was pointing at something.

It was the cage.

Inside it, Sasuke could see four girls that were sleeping.

But to him, only one caught his eyes.

She had pink hair and her skin was pale -but not too pale.

When the moon hit her skin, it gave her an angelic look.

The spiky haired boy turned to Sasuke. "I think we should introduce ourselves," he said with a glint of mischief in his eyes.

Sasuke smirked back at his friend. "I agree with you, Shikamaru," he replied.

He turned to the other two and signaled them to follow.

Then slowly, they made their way to the cage.

A.N. It's the best I could come up with. Please be nice. If you need to correct me on something, please put it in a nice way. DON'T BE MEAN!Please read and review!

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